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Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.

— Sarah Waters

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

— Omar N. Bradley

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

— William Wordsworth

Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope.

— James Howard Kunstler

We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's in our nature. What's also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.

— Jonathan Nolan

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

— Alice Walker

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

— Sean Lennon

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we're also starting to be really brave.

— Aurora

At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it.

— Henry Rollins

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

— Ziggy Marley

✗Opposing Perspectives

Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.

— Gore Vidal